Category: General
Posted on May 28, 2014 by Lawen Azad
The events in Syria, the abhorrent actions of Boko Haram, the increasing violence in Ukraine are just a few headlines that have summoned our attention of late. But now, Kurds in Southern Kurdistan under the protection of the Kurdistan Regional …
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Posted on May 29, 2013 by Tasbeeh Herwees
In 2011, in the Eastern city of Benghazi, whispers of dissent gave way to riotous revolution; Libyans took to the streets in unprecedented numbers, chanting anti-regime slogans, carrying signs and waving flags signaling their defiance. Two flags that were heretofore …
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Posted on January 1, 2013 by Lillian Simonsen
The Danish author Adil Erdem both rebukes and celebrates the Kurdish identity when he is interviewed in a new series on Danish-Kurdish portraits, “KURDISH PROFILE,” as he answers personal questions about his Kurdish origin. Published first on the left-wing web …
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Posted on December 13, 2012 by Kastur
On December 5th, 2012, in a Kurdish inhabited village called Shinawa near Piranshaar in Iran, on a cold morning while all 37 students of the class, all girls in the age between 6 to 10, were in the class room with …
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Posted on October 8, 2012 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
On September 18th the Danish police conducted a search in a Kurdish community center in Copenhagen in order to find evidence of money transactions between Kurds in Denmark and the Kurdish rebel group, PKK. 8 Kurds were arrested for having …
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Posted on August 18, 2012 by Naila Bozo
The Kurdish Youth Movement (Tevgera Ciwanên Kurd, TCK) in West Kurdistan (Northeast Syria) has confirmed that an explosion has taken place today at a Syrian intelligence center in Qamişlo. The explosion could be heard in the western part of the …
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Posted on July 28, 2009 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
A court in Diyabakır has sentenced Kurdish politician Leyla Zana to 1 year and 3 months imprisonment for allegedly spreading PKK propaganda in a speech made at a seminar at London’s SOAS University on 24 May 2008.
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Posted on July 24, 2009 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
On the 13th of July, traders and businessmen of northern towns of Kurdistan went on strike, which were widespread in cities such as Saqez and Bokan. In Mahabad these strikes were particularly extensive.
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